As the teams ran out earlier, Chelsea fans paraded a “Pride of London” flag, while the Bayern end was completely dominated by a red-and-white display that warned their rivals: “Our city. Our stadium. Our cup.”

One million Bayern fans had applied for tickets, with the 45,000 or so lucky ones massively outnumbering Chelsea supporters in the 66,000-seater Allianz Arena.

Even an hour before kick-off the Bayern end was packed, with fans chanting, banging drums and waving red-and-white flags.

In all, more than 180,000 football supporters packed Munich for the big game, which saw Bayern chasing their fifth European Cup and Chelsea their first.

An estimated 30,000 of the supporters were Brits, with the city’s beer gardens packed from the moment they opened with blue-clad fans.

Many had travelled without a ticket and were left scrambling for a place at one of the two fan zone big screens, which were both sold out within minutes.

Bayern’s “home advantage” included being drawn as the home side – meaning they got to use their normal changing room and their fans occupied their normal seats.

The 33-year-old tweeted a picture of herself before kick-off, urging fans to get behind her fella’s team.

Earlier, thousands of Chelsea fans gathered for a pre-match drink at the Odeonsplatz square in central Munich.

The pre-match celebrations were largely good natured, with supporters from both teams – many of Bayern’s in traditional lederhosen shorts – exchanging banter and chants. Police said there had been no arrests.

Despite an unprecedented ban on public drinking in Munich, the open- air beer halls were still doing a roaring trade.

However at the stadium only non alcoholic beer was on sale – and many pubs swapped the traditional Bavarian steins for plastic glasses.

As fans made their way to the stadium, cars honked their horns at people in Bayern colours, echoing the sentiment of the local Abendzeitung paper, which declared: “Today we are all Red.”

And on the front of another paper, an empty beer glass was labelled in English “For you” while the Champions League trophy next to it was labelled in German “For us”